5 Things You Never Knew About the Original 'Power Rangers'
The parties, the clubbing, the abysmal pay and more!
— -- It has been more than 20 years since the original "Power Rangers" hit TV and film, changing our lives forever. Now, there is possibly going to be a new "Power Rangers" movie.
So the Huffington Post interviewed the Black Ranger, Walter Jones, the Red Ranger, Austin St. John, and the Blue Ranger, David Yost, among other cast members to reveal never-before-heard stories from the set.
Here are 5 things you probably never knew about the show:
1 - Austin St. John and Walter Jones Lived Together and Partied ... A Lot!
Yost called their home a "frat house."
"The parties were memorable: We had pool tables, we had a trampoline, we had a huge Burmese python that was 12-feet long, and we'd just have a good time. I'd come home sometimes and there were 150 people in our house that we didn't know," Jones said.
St. John added, "Oh, man, our parties were always outrageous. At the time we were all single, we were all on the prowl. You know, we had a little bit of fame and we had an amazing house that sat on top of a hill in Glendale, California ... We had some parties that were so big. Multiple kegs. Inevitably somebody would call the police and a helicopter would show up and put a spotlight on the backyard where we had a volleyball net."
2 - The Actors Weren't Paid All That Much
"We weren't paid a lot, at all. I could have worked the window at McDonald’s and probably made the same money the first season. It was disappointing, it was frustrating, it made a lot of us angry," St. John said.
Jones added that the contracts were so bad that, "eventually, what happened is that we just negotiated out of the contracts and moved on."
3 - The Cast Often Went Clubbing
"The first season we'd go out to bars after work on Fridays. Or we'd get dinner on Saturday nights and hang out at whatever the popular dance club was. Walter, hands down, is the best dancer, because he was a professional dancer ... I'd probably come in third out of everybody as best dancer," Yost said.
4 - Pranks Happened All the Time on Set
"I had some foolish teenager moments where I'd be pulling shenanigans,” St. John said. “There might have been times I was making noise off set to try and distract them while they were shooting. Other times I'd do something foolish like throw a carrot over the top of the wall into where I knew they were actively shooting and I was just waiting to see what I could disrupt.”
5 - Yost Suffered Homophobic Slurs on Set
"I was struggling with my sexuality for the majority of my life up to that point. People would say things and there were rumors about my sexuality on set. Or people would make up lies about things I was doing and it would just become upsetting," Yost said, adding that he eventually left the show because of producers and crew. He even entered a "pray the gay away" program, but then accepted himself later on.
"I had just come to a point where I wasn't in a good place mentally,” he added. “I just thought it was best that I walk away from the show, because I didn't want to be in an environment anymore that was adding to my stress and adding to me not liking myself. So I left the show and I did try several things to correct being gay, if you will ... I ended up having a nervous breakdown and had to check into the hospital for five weeks. After that I started getting my head back together and accepting myself for who I was.”
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